While hiking up South Moat Mountain last week, a large milk snake crossed the trail. This was a beautiful snake - reddish blotches ringed in a darker brown against a grayish-tan background. So, of ...

This story has been modified to correct that timber rattlesnakes live in the far southwest corner of Berkshire County. STOCKBRIDGE — The Rolfs family was hiking at Olivia's Overlook recently when ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Of the six species of snakes found on Staten Island, only the eastern milk snake dispatches its prey by constriction. The other five native snakes use the simple grab-and-hold ...

Newly emerged in early May, an eastern milk snake, dressed in a spectacular pattern of gray, black and rust, stretched its 4-foot body across the limestone ledge in the early morning sun, basking for ...

Walking down my road on an early June afternoon several years ago, I spotted a snake attempting to cross into the underbrush. Covered in colorful splotches, it quickly slithered across the pavement ...

Every year, 5.4 million people are bitten by snakes. While not all of these snakes are venomous, nearly half are. Of the 2.7 million people poisoned by venomous snake bites each year, between 81,000 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The SPCA Serving Erie County recently helped a milk snake that was in a dire situation. Amherst Animal Control had received a milk snake from a homeowner who had discovered it caught ...

(WHEC) A Pittsford, New York mother and daughter ended up on a scramble Monday to secure a slithery supermarket stowaway, a snake they spotted in their shopping cart. Laura Walitsky spied the serpent ...